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                                 5144--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 20, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, SCHIMEL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
  A.  JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations,
  Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted to the Committee on  Corpo-
  rations,  Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Assembly Rule
  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
  amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the public health law and the public authorities law, in
  relation  to  cost  allowances  for  strategic capital investments for
  technology infrastructure of certain home health care programs

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 3614 of the public health law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 3-b to read as follows:
  3-B. STRATEGIC CAPITAL INVESTMENT  ALLOWANCES.  (A)  FOR  ANNUAL  RATE
PERIODS ON AND AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, IN DETERMINING
THE PROPOSED RATE SCHEDULES FOR PAYMENTS FOR CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AGEN-
CY  SERVICES OR SERVICES PROVIDED BY LONG TERM HOME HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS
OR AIDS HOME CARE PROGRAMS, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INCLUDE IN SUCH RATES
AN ALLOWANCE FOR COSTS INCURRED FOR  STRATEGIC  CAPITAL  INVESTMENTS  BY
SUCH AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ELECTRONIC MEDICAL
RECORDS, DISEASE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY, MEDICATION MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY
AND  OTHER  INVESTMENTS  RELATED TO THEIR TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE. THE
PURPOSE OF SUCH ALLOWANCE SHALL BE  TO  IMPROVE  THE  QUALITY  OF  CARE,
IMPROVE  THE  COST-EFFECTIVE OPERATION OF SUCH AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS AND
FACILITATE THE FULFILLMENT OF THE STATE'S HEALTH CARE GOALS. SUCH ALLOW-
ANCE SHALL BE FACTORED IN AS A COMPONENT OF THE RATE SCHEDULE AFTER, AND
SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO, THE APPLICATION OF ANY ADJUSTMENTS, CEILINGS OR
LIMITATIONS ON SUCH RATE SCHEDULES.
  (B) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW  OR  REGULATION,
THE  ALLOWANCES  PROVIDED FOR IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00942-03-4

              

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BE SUBJECT TO AMOUNTS AS MAY  BE  ALLOCATED  OR  APPROPRIATED  FOR  SUCH
PURPOSES.
  S 2. The opening paragraph of section 1680-j of the public authorities
law,  as  amended  by  section 54 of part B of chapter 58 of the laws of
2005, is amended to read as follows:
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the dormi-
tory authority of the state of New York is hereby  authorized  to  issue
bonds  or  notes  in one or more series in an aggregate principal amount
not to exceed seven hundred fifty million dollars excluding bonds issued
to fund one or more debt service reserve funds, to pay costs of issuance
of such bonds, and bonds or notes issued to refund  or  otherwise  repay
such  bonds  or  notes  previously issued, for the purposes of financing
project costs authorized under section twenty-eight hundred eighteen  of
the  public health law. Of such seven hundred fifty million dollars, ten
million dollars shall be made available to the community health  centers
capital  program  established  pursuant  to section twenty-eight hundred
seventeen of the public health law, AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS  SHALL  BE
MADE  AVAILABLE TO CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AGENCIES, LONG TERM HOME HEALTH
CARE PROGRAMS AND AIDS HOME CARE PROGRAMS FOR STRATEGIC CAPITAL  INVEST-
MENTS  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  THREE-B  OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED
FOURTEEN OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.